Comment & Opinion

The federal government often does not have enough time to ensure that oil and gas companies are properly reporting the royalties they owe from drillin...

The shooting death of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has quickly become a rallying point in the broader political battle over immigrati...

In Pennsylvania, it’s not an understatement to say that women are less inclined to own small businesses. The Keystone State ranks in the bottom five o...

There’s a time-honored tradition of U.S. presidents, whose electoral fortunes tend to rise or fall with the state of the economy, grumbling about chai...

It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money. Before the recent tragic shooting, the biggest story out of Minnesota involved massive fraud. Content...

The federal government is unable to verify that $5.8 billion in rental assistance paid to more than 204,000 recipients in 2024 was not fraudulent, acc...

In this year’s midterm elections, Pennsylvanians will face many options. The entire congressional delegation, half of the state Senate delegation, and...

After another successful holiday season, many customers ask what to expect from the U.S. Postal Service in the new year. The short answer, in Lewis Ru...

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolut...

Losing someone in your life is difficult; the closer they are, the more it hurts. On Christmas Day, I lost a brother. It's taken me some time to write...

The Green Party of McKean County strongly condemns "Operation Absolute Resolve," the illegal military incursion into Venezuela and kidnapping of Presi...

PITTSBURGH — The morning of Jan. 3, after Delta Force operators dragged Nike tracksuit-clad Nicolás Maduro from his Caracas compound, my stepfather wa...

Minneapolis remained on edge as demonstrators took to the streets to protest of the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officers. CNN r...

President Donald Trump has devoted much energy during his second term to undoing the damage caused by his predecessor’s economic paternalism. His late...

The auto industry is headed back to where it should have stayed in the quest to put a cleaner fleet on the road: hybrids. Automakers are rapidly backi...

Federal mandates drove automakers into a financial ditch. Ford Motor Co. has announced a dramatic shift away from producing electric vehicles. That in...

Americans have already turned the calendar to 2026, but it will take years to pay back the debt incurred by the federal initiatives listed in Sen. Ran...

Pennsylvania stands at a pivotal moment. Families are stretched thin by higher costs, and employers are weighing whether to invest here or elsewhere. ...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — Sometimes, I learn new things through a simple reading of daily devotions. If you aren’t familiar with a devotion, these can be a si...

The nonprofit New Opportunities, Inc. used $2.8 million in taxpayer funds meant for low-income families’ heating bills on its own operating expenses, ...